Electric cars

[Kevin]

They're aimed at city dwellers. Hybrids (of various flavors) are the vehicles of choice for you.

Personally, I drive 2 miles to work each way, and some days I go shopping on my way home (for an additional 5-10 miles). My car was brand new at the end of 2007 (last week of December), and I have a little over 18k miles on it. An electric car would be perfect for me, if not for other practical considerations.

I'm mostly in the same boat. I put like 75-150 miles a month on with the exception of the 5 or 50-150 mile round trips a year and the 3 to 6 trips a year that are 400 - 850 miles one way (so 800 - 1700 mile round trip). Yes some of those trips I might be able to fly, or I could rent something else. My old 02 Taurus SES should get me another year or two before I'm really looking but the hybrids that say they get the 40-50 miles before the gas engine kicks in (and then they can go a couple hundred on that) seem to be the option that would best suite me and I'm hoping something is in the pipeline that might be a bit better than what is out there now.

Another option is two cars, of course but well I don't have the personal wealth for that yet.